Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg says she doubted what became an accurate prediction by Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg said in January 2020 that the coronavirus might require working remotely, she told Axios. Facebook sent all of its 50,000 employees home on March 6, 2020. Visit the Business section of Insider for more stories. Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, says she thought CEO Mark Zuckerberg was “nuts” when, at the start of 2020, he suggested that all employees might have to work remotely because of the novel coronavirus.Zuckerberg told her and other senior Facebook employees in January 2020 to prepare for the possibility that all employees would have to work from home, Sandberg said in a podcast interview with “Axios Re:Cap” on Monday.”I thought he was nuts,” she said. “I was like: ‘What do you mean there’d be a pandemic? What’s a pandemic? And would we really work from home?’ But he said: ‘No, no. It’s possible that everyone’s going to have to, like, go home.'”Through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a philanthropic organization spearheaded by Priscilla Chan and her husband, Zuckerberg, the Facebook CEO received briefings from health experts in January, Sandberg said. Around that time, the new virus had only been recently…
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Mark Zuckerberg said in January 2020 that the pandemic might force all staff to work from home …
